Letters to Perestroika

 This interview is the second in the Pitt REEES Spring Series “Openness, Acceleration, Restructuring: The Soviet 1980s.” See the full schedule. Guest: Courtney Doucette is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego, where she teaches courses in modern Russian, European, and gender history. Her book-in-progress, Perestroika: The Last Attempt to Make the New Soviet Person, 1985-1991 examines how Gorbachev-era reform emerged from the longstanding Soviet effort to transform citizens into upstanding participants in the creation of socialism. Music: The Weirdos, “We Got the Neutron Bomb.”